Improvement in organs and melodeons



SIMEON TAYLOR, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 91,686, dated June 22, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT ORG-AN S .AND MELODEONS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Know all mem by these presents.-

' That I, SIMEON TAYLOR, of the city and county of- Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Organs and Melodeons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichn Figure 1 represents a plan view of so much of an organ or melodeon as isvnecessary to illustrate my present improvements. Y

Figure 2 represents a section on line AB, fi'g. 1, and

Figure 3 represents a section on line C D, iig. 1.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will de-v scribe it more in detail.

The nature .of my invention consistsllfilst', in the combination and arrangement of the mechanism by which the volume of tone of the in strnment is regulated, in such a manner thatvthe stops, by which such mechanism is operated,can be placed directly in front of the player, instead of at the sides of the instrument, as has heretofore been practised.

Second, in the combination with the valves which regulate the volume of the tone of the instrument, of certain peculiar mechanism for operating the same, as hereafter explained'.

A B represent keys attached to valves C, in the ordinarymanner.

D is the reed-frame, provided, in this instance, with 'two long valves E E, one on each side, which cover the openings a a.

Thesevalves are held down by springs b b, arranged in the usual manner.

Upon one of the'cross-pieces F (which supports the guide-frame G) is secured a stand, H, having two arms I I'.

To each of these arms a right-angle lever, J, is pivoted or hinged at c. Y

The upright arms of said levers have slots d, by means ot' which the horizontal stop-handles are td be attached, and which project forward through the casing, so that they can be operated by'the performer while sitting in ii'ont of the instrument.

The horizontal arm of lever J, g. 3,- vprojects forward, and is connected by a link, e, to the rear part of a triangular piece, j, which, in turn, is hinged at g to a stand, h, secured tothe top of the reedframe.

To the upper front corner of the piece f is hinged the rear end of the connection my, the front end of which is hinged to a projection on the valve E, which in turn is hinged to the reed-frame, at 1, as fully indicated in iig. 3.

The operation is as follows:

When arm J is drawn forward by means of the stop-handle, piece f is depressed, thereby drawing connection Iml back, and raising the valve E, the position of the parts when the valve is opened being shown by red lines, fig. 3.

It will be seen, by reference to iig. 3, that the' rear joint of the connection 'm is drawn back and down into the same, or nearly the sameV horizontal plane with joint gof the piece f, so that the power of spring b draws the connect-ion "m, on a I ine with joint g, whereby the valve is held open, or in a locked position, until it is closed .by the operator moving the upiight arm of lever J back suticient-ly to mise piece. f, until the rear joint of connection m rises above the dead-point, or centre g, when the power of the spring b instantly closes valve E. l

I have now described the mode of applying the device to operate the front valve E.

In ig. 2 the device is shown, applied to open both the. front and rear valves by forward movements of the upper arms of the levers J, the motions of pieces f and connections m, in one case, being in an opposite direction from what they are in the other.

1n iig. 1, the rear part-s of the keys are represented broken away, to show the position and relative arrangement of the stop or valve-operating mechanism. s y

The upper ends of the arms J project up between thekeys A B, the sides ot' the keys being cut away slightly, to 'admit of a free movement of the levers and keys', without rubbing orchafing.

It will be understood, that instead of one valve, E, running the whole width of the keys, two or more may be substituted, each valve being provided with a separate operating-mechanism.

My inventonhas been practically tested, and meets with much favor.

Thelauangement of the mechanism for opening and closing the valves or stops, to regulate the volume and power -of the sounds below the keys and above the reed-frame, isA very important, since it obviates the necessity of complicated lever-arrangements.

Having described my improvements in organs and melodeons,

What I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The arrangement ofthe arms, by which the volume of tone-regulating mechanism is operated, between the rear parts of thekeys, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with one or more valves E,

of a bell-crank lever, J, stands h, and connections f, m, and e, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination and relative arrangement, with the valves E E, bell-cranks J J, stands H h, and arms I, of the pieces ff, and connections m m and e o, substantially as and for the purposes set forthf 4. The arrangement of the mechanism for opening l and closing the valves or stops, by which the volume and power of tbe organ or meloileon is regulated, un der tbe keys and above the reed-frame, substzintinlly as shown and described.

SIMEON TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

THos. H. DODGE, D. L. MILLER. 

